Flawed and over the top

Rating: 3/10 (29 April 2020)

The Island has Michael Bay's style all over it and a less stylish filmmaker might have delivered a coherent film. Bay tends to believe his aggressive filmmaking style is what we want but that's definitely not the truth. The film throws everything at you and that high rise action set piece demonstrates the filmmaker doesn't know how to stage a tension set piece. The cast is talented but are left with nothing. This would've been better handled by a talented filmmaker with less focus on mind numbing action. This flopped at the box office for good reason.